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The regional championships season, running from January to March, brought an intensive schedule of rehearsals, workshops and concerts for Regent Brass and Regent Community Brass. January opened with a workshop led by renowned conductor Russell Gray, preparing the bands for their respective test pieces – Morley Calvert’s Introduction, Elegy and Caprice for the First Section and Jacob de Haan’s Arkansas for the Third Section. In February, a joint workshop with celebrated conductor Chris King added further insight ahead of a…

With the new year came the beginning of the regionals prepartion season for Regent Brass. Regent Brass played Eric Ball’s rhapsody High Peak. The prolific and legendary brass band composer Eric Ball wrote High Peak about a journey up a mountain, in 4 sections: Vision in which the climber views the high peak from the valley below, Aspiration, in which the climber decides to climb it and begins their preparations, Ascent in which the climber sets off, in high spirits…